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Street cred
After years of snobbery, all of sudden it's cool to have a soap credit on your CV - for writers, producers and directors as well as for stars, writes BBC head of drama series Mal Young.
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Soaps - The Business Page - Cleaning up?
Selling soaps abroad means crossing cultural and language barriers and persuading foreign broadcasters to offer an untried product a long run in a primetime slot. However, as Esther Eley discovers, the potential rewards are huge.
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PROFILE - A game of patience
Janet Anderson, the Government's newly installed minister for broadcasting, has received a broad welcome from the industry. But where does she stand on the major issues of the day?
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OFF THE RECORD - Doyle is Shaw's Bodie man
Actor Martin Shaw has struggled hard to reinvent himself after his years playing CI5 agent Ray Doyle in The Professionals. Small wonder, then, that he took such a dim view of
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OFF THE RECORD - Shaw's swap shop
What's this? Martin Shaw distancing himself even further from The Professionals by working in BBC local radio? No, silly - it's not actor Martin Shaw, but the eponymous GLR news editor,
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OFF THE RECORD - Sorry ... but not that sorry
ITV dynamic duo Richard Eyre and David Liddiment were back smooth talking ITV's long-suffering advertisers again this week - just over a year after unveiling their master plan last January. The
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OFF THE RECORD - Ghost of Xmas past
What a joy it was to see ITC chief executive Sir Robin Biggam at the Royal Television Society last week, acquainting the TV industry with his thoughts on the future of
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OFF THE RECORD - New Orleans Toy Story
And so to Natpe in New Orleans where trade minister Brian Wilson was star billing at a glittering champagne reception at the British Pavilion earlier this week. The aim, of course,
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OFF THE RECORD - = - DUTY LOG
This week's entries come from STV and Broadcast's own duty log.Readers can now call our own duty office with their comments on ...Caller on Trisha: 'I was watching the show where
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OFF THE RECORD - AND FINALLY
Gary Rogers, editor of Channel 5 news, reveals rather more than five facts about himself.
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Rent boy doc faked admits Channel 4
Channel 4 has admitted that key scenes in a documentary claiming to show male prostitutes plying their trade were faked.The admission, concerning the film Chickens, screened in September 1997, comes in
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Pitt to edit Everyman as she returns to Real Life
Granada Television head of documentaries Ruth Pitt is leaving in April to take on a dual role as editor of BBC 1's Everyman series and director of programmes at Real Life Productions, writes Liz Shackleton.
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Mentorn shops for indies with£4m warchest
The Mentorn Group is set to go on the acquisition trail after making£4 million on the sale of shares in radio group Orchard Media, writes Tim Dams.
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Prince to dig up ancestors for C4 show
Prince Edward is developing a documentary for Channel 4 that involves exhuming the bones of two of his royal ancestors, writes Tim Dams.
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UNIQUE SIGNS TWO-YEAR DEAL WITH CRCA FOR MORE PEPSI
Radio indie Unique Broadcasting will produce The Pepsi Chart until the end of 2000 after it signed a further two-year contract with the Commercial Radio Companies Association (CRCA) last week. The
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ITN FACTUAL ANNOUNCES LATEST COMMISSIONS
ITN Factual has announced a raft of commissions including another two episodes of ITV's Britain's Richest ... documentary strand and seven new programmes in the Biography series for US network A&E.
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FILMING STARTS ON ITV PRISON DRAMA JAILBIRDS
Filming has started in east London on Brian Park's new drama for ITV, Jailbirds. The 10-part series from Shed Productions, due to air in ITV's spring schedule, is set in a
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VTVC TO MAKE ROCK DOC THREE-PARTER FOR C4
C4 has commissioned a 3 x 60-minute series from the Virtual Television Company (VTVC) about rock and pop managers called The Management. Each programme features a different manager from a different
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NEW RADIO AND TV SERIES FOR AS TIME GOES BY
The Bob Larbey-scripted sitcom As Time Goes By (left) has been recommissioned for new series on both BBC 1 and BBC Radio 2. The 6 x 30-minute TV series, the eighth,
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BBC SCORES PREMIER LEAGUE GALA AWARDS
The FA Premier League has given broadcast rights to its first gala awards evening exclusively to the BBC. The awards will take place on Saturday 22 May, the day of the